Obita CEO Zhang Dayong: AI has compressed value delivery to the second level, and cross-border payments can no longer remain stuck at T+1 to T+7.

According to the official WeChat account *Computing Power Heart*, Bitmain launched two new water-cooled mining rigs at the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) in Hong Kong. The flagship S23 XP Hyd has a hash rate of 600 TH/s, an energy efficiency ratio of 8.9 J/T, and a total power consumption of 5,340W. Its futures unit price is $25.5 per TH/s (totaling $15,300 for the full unit), with deliveries scheduled between November 2026 and January 2027. The 2U rack-mounted S23e U2H, designed to fit modified standard IDC cabinets, features a hash rate of 865 TH/s, an energy efficiency ratio of 10 J/T, a promotional unit price of $11 per TH/s, and a total price of $9,515.

Jiang Zhuoer, founder of BTC mining pool B.TOP, posted that Bitcoin ETFs recorded net outflows on Friday, ending a 9-day consecutive inflow streak. Against the backdrop of Fed Chair Waller’s hawkish remarks, BTC will face its first test since the recent rally. Jiang also confirmed he sold 50% of his spot ETH positions during Friday’s price decline.

South Korea’s five leading crypto centralised exchanges (CEXs) — Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, DigitalX, and GOPAX — posted a total trading volume of around 31.1 trillion won (approximately $23 billion) in the week of August 21–28. This represented an 188.04% week-over-week surge from the prior week’s 10.8 trillion won, hitting the highest level in nearly 10 months since late October 2025. In terms of market share, Upbit retained the top spot with 59.61%, while Bithumb ranked second at 33.11%. The rebranded DigitalX (formerly Korbit) saw its market share rise sharply by 3.477 percentage points to 4.21%, surpassing Coinone (3.05%) to claim third place, notching the platform’s highest market share in nearly 20 weeks.

Hyperliquid HIP-4 permissionless deployments are now live, with the first HIP-4-based outcome DEX, "OUT", fully deployed. Per Hyperliquid’s developer documentation, HIP-4 enables deployers to permissionlessly create YES/NO or multi-outcome markets using templates approved via validator votes.

At the "AI × New Finance – Innovation Global Tour Hong Kong Stop & Yangtze Star Cluster Plan Launch Conference", Zhou Chenggang, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of China Taiping Investment Management (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., stated that there is an essential difference between RWA and on-chain native assets such as Bitcoin. The token of an RWA is not an asset in itself, but merely an on-chain voucher for off-chain real assets. Therefore, RWA will not break away from the traditional financial system just by going on-chain. Zhou pointed out that issues including how asset rights are established and enforced, who bears responsibility for asset losses, and how information is continuously disclosed still require support from the traditional financial and legal systems. Web3 is more likely to transform some segments of finance rather than completely subvert traditional finance.

At the "AI × New Finance – Innovation Global Tour Hong Kong Session & Yangtze Starry Plan Launch Conference", Zhang Kaifu, founder of Little Grebe AI and former vice president of Alibaba, stated that the core change in AI over the past year is that models have evolved from chat tools to Agents capable of completing complex tasks continuously. The next stage worth focusing on is that AI will start participating in its own research, training, and inference optimization. Zhang Kaifu noted that this "recursive self-improvement" has already emerged in some studies. If in the future AI can continuously optimize models and training efficiency like top researchers, the pace of technological progress may see another exponential jump, and the next 1 to 2 years could become a key variable for AI development. He also judged that as model capabilities continue to improve, AI Agents will shift from passive response to always-on, active task execution, thereby driving new infrastructure demands in cloud computing, identity authentication, cybersecurity and other fields.